Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.3727/194341420x15692567324903
Toyohiko Sugimoto, Hayato Nagai
Dining experience is a crucial element in international tourism because it can encourage tourists to understand local culture and has the potential to increase repeat visitation. A better understanding of tourists' dining choice behaviors is important for destination development; however, the literature has not yet fully investigated this topic, and in particular it is unclear how their behaviors change across repeat visits. This study aimed to fill these gaps by conducting semistructured in-depth interviews with young Australian tourists traveling to Japan. The analysis of the qualitative data identified four major dining choice patterns: perusing the area, searching online sources, hearing from friends or family members, and calling on previous experience. Within the four patterns, perusing the area (i.e., walking around a food district) was the most observed behavior for both first-time and repeat tourists. In addition, repeat tourists tended to choose more local and authentic food due to their motivational development from new-and-touristy to local-and-authentic dining experiences. This study's findings extend the current understanding of tourists' dining choices in the tourism literature and offer suggestions for practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15991011535517
R. Tzanelli
In this reflective essay I revise the relationship between travel as an embodied secular journey and pilgrimage as a sacred ritual via examinations of websurfing as a form of virtual pilgrimage. My main premise is that virtual travel facilitated by the internet and through various digital platforms and collaborative social media should be considered as a novel secular form of metamovement we can approach as a pilgrimage. This pilgrimage produces multiple versions of reality ("world versions"), both in collaboration with corporate internet design and independently from it. Because such nonembodied secular engagement with other places and cultures produces online "travel" communities, digital pilgrimage prompts us to revisit John Urry's "tourist gaze" thesis and Keith Hollinshead's "worldmaking authority" in a critical fashion. Critical reconsideration of these two influential theses involves a closer inspection of metamovement for its aesthetic parameters, as well as their affording of creative connections between the mind (internalism) and the world (externalism) as a form of travel. Such connections can also assist in the production of conventional tourism mobilities.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.3727/194341420x15692567324886
A. Duffy, Marianne Mingwei Chua
Emphasis framing has routinely been applied to hard news. This article extends it to "softer" media texts. It considers a specific example of how travel blogs use the frame of heroism, and the underlying ideologies it reveals about how people imagine a destination and conceive of Others. We analyze 400 travel blog posts to assess how bloggers recount tales of overcoming different challenges, and how this subsequently directs their own role performances. This article offers the use of heroism in travel blogs as evidence that emphasis framing is a critical aspect of nonnews media texts, and that it can also be interpreted to offer insights into ideologies that underpin culture. This article argues for more analysis of emphasis framing in lifestyle texts as a means to identify social realities and the role the media plays in creating and maintaining them.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-03DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15894802540179
Avishek Ray
Zygmunt Bauman invokes the trope of vagrancy, wherein the "vagabonds" are squarely juxtaposed with the "tourists" who are, in sum, the global elite. For him, there are no vagabonds, they are only forced to be. This article questions Bauman's classificatory categories, his dualistic views, and the explanatory apparatus of the "voluntary-versus-involuntary travel." If "vagabond" de facto means involuntary traveler, where in Bauman's schema are we going to place those itinerants—particularly, in the context of South Asia—who self-assert, and quite eloquently so, to be "vagabonds"? Using India as a case study, this article demonstrates how the trope of the vagabond has been perpetually leveraged—by certain political dissenters—to articulate a nonroutinized, noninstrumental, rhizomatic-style traveling, and by extension, political dissidence in the face of statist techniques of demographic control. Thinking in these terms, the imagination of vagabonds as volition-stripped travelers can be assumed to be a product of the Western value system (that uses the utility-maximized "tourists" as the prototype of traveler), which anyway cannot be universalized. This article, from a postcolonial vantage point, argues that Bauman's differentiation of the category "vagabond" has no resonance in India.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-03DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15894802540133
R. Tzanelli, M. Korstanje
In our introduction to the special issue we attempt to reflect on the plurality and development of critical argumentation in tourism analysis. First, we adopt a "genealogical" approach to the parallel birth of critical thinking in early 20th century European social sciences and critical–institutional elaboration of the "tourist" and "tourism" as contemporary phenomena. These interlaced histories of social thought are examined as "attitudes" towards the grand project of modernity, and divided into "soft" and contemplative, and "hard" or activist. We argue that these scholarly attitudes-as-projects organized groups of tourism theorists, passionate for the discussion of similar problems. The same groups would subsequently develop variations of criticality into more coherent "paradigms." In more recent decades these protoparadigms came to interrogate the basic tenets of business ethics, as well as the moral core of activities such as tourism and hospitality in more fulsome paradigmatic registers and vocabularies. From there, we proceed to present the organizational rationale of our eclectic collection of contributions to this special issue. Organized under the principles and axioms of Keith Hollinhead's "worldmaking," and the development of critical tourism paradigms, the articles discuss four themes: (a) postcoloniality and tourism, (b) biopolitics and tourism, (c) media representations, social identities, and tourism, and (d) cultural industries and tourism.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-03DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15894802540214
Marta Soligo, D. Dickens
This research is a critical study of tourism at four cemeteries in the Los Angeles area between 2013 and 2019: Hollywood Forever, Forest Lawn in Glendale, Forest Lawn in Hollywood, and Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. We examined these venues through the lens of celebrity tourism, since they are known as "Hollywood memorial parks," hosting the graves of some of the most famous stars in the world. Through participant observation, informal conversations, and content analysis of texts we aimed to understand how the relationship between these venues and the entertainment industry works as a "pull factor" for tourists. Our data collection and analysis led to three main findings. Firstly, we identified the motivations behind the increasing number of tourists who add Los Angeles cemeteries to their must-see list. Although scholars often define cemeteries as dark tourism destinations, our investigation shows that Hollywood memorial parks are more related to celebrity tourism. Secondly, employing the notion of "cult of celebrity," we described how the experience of tourists visiting their favorite celebrity's grave can be seen as a modern pilgrimage centered on a collective experience. Thirdly, we analyzed the cemetery as a commodity in which executives work to promote the site as the perfect location where one can spend the "eternal life." In this sense, we also investigated how memorial parks are often used as venues for cultural events, attracting a large number of tourists. As described in the findings section, initiatives such as movie screenings and guided tours transform cemeteries into much more than just peaceful places where to honor the dead, becoming venues for both commodification and spectacle.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-03DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15894802540151
P. Reas
That the volunteer tourism industry in Cambodia is now considered to be fueling the demand for "orphans" in towns like Siem Reap requires that academia continues to apply a broad range of critical perspectives to the examination of this popular tourist trend. Here I add to the growing body of criticality by framing around the question of just "what" is being consumed in these popular vacations. It was during a 6-week period as a volunteer tourist in an orphanage in the town that my curiosity and unease compelled me to ask: "what is going on here?" This article is based on the subsequent research project examining the volunteer tourist experience in orphanages and children's care centers in Siem Reap and draws on interviews with individuals considering a volunteering vacation, volunteers in situ, and vacation returners, as well as an extensive examination of grey literature. Critically examined through the lens of consumerism and an understanding of the pleasure-seeking motives inherent in consumer decisions, volunteer tourism is recognized as a contemporary consumer commodity, but significantly one that involves personhood. Commodification and objectification of people and bodies are familiar concepts in the tourism literature. I discuss how, when examined using these concepts, the role that these processes play in making the bodies of poor children available to the volunteer tourist market is made evidently visible. I also discuss how, through the trope of eating, poor children in orphanages are objectified as "morsels of exotic otherness," evoking a provocative concept of "consumerism." I conclude that critical analysis shows that there is significantly more to these helpful vacations than their often taken-for-granted positive depiction and argue that sentimentality can detract from the real processes that are operating in this popular vacation trend.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-03DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15894802540142
Carla Guerrón Guerron Montero
Using a critical tourism studies framework, I discuss the participation of "cultural experts" (anthropologists, historians, and cultural heritage professionals) in the production of legitimacy, authenticity, and sovereignty of Brazilian quilombos. Quilombos are defined as communities composed of peoples of African, indigenous, and European descent, who constructed independent societies outside the plantation system. I address the process of cultural experts whose individual, institutional, and interdisciplinary identities are intertwined with power–knowledge relations in both academic and applied contexts. I focus on the role of these professionals in two main issues: 1) the debate over conceptualizing and identifying quilombos; and 2) the legitimation of quilombo cultural heritage for tourism purposes. Through this discussion, I aim to problematize scholarly reflexivity, which has permeated anthropological and social sciences debates since the 1990s and critical tourism studies debates since the 2000s.
{"title":"Legitimacy, Authenticity, and Authority in Brazilian Quilombo Tourism: Critical Reflexive Practice Among Cultural Experts","authors":"Carla Guerrón Guerron Montero","doi":"10.3727/109830420x15894802540142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420x15894802540142","url":null,"abstract":"Using a critical tourism studies framework, I discuss the participation of \"cultural experts\" (anthropologists, historians, and cultural heritage professionals) in the production of legitimacy, authenticity, and sovereignty of Brazilian quilombos. Quilombos are defined as communities\u0000 composed of peoples of African, indigenous, and European descent, who constructed independent societies outside the plantation system. I address the process of cultural experts whose individual, institutional, and interdisciplinary identities are intertwined with power–knowledge relations\u0000 in both academic and applied contexts. I focus on the role of these professionals in two main issues: 1) the debate over conceptualizing and identifying quilombos; and 2) the legitimation of quilombo cultural heritage for tourism purposes. Through this discussion, I aim to problematize scholarly\u0000 reflexivity, which has permeated anthropological and social sciences debates since the 1990s and critical tourism studies debates since the 2000s.","PeriodicalId":41836,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79400129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-03DOI: 10.3727/109830420x15894802540160
D. Lapointe, Myra Jane O’Neil Coulter
Contemporary tourism is omnipresent in development discourses and policies, functioning as a "worldmaking" force in which tourism activities provide a representation and storyline that influence the tourist and their behavior, thus becoming a form of social production. Justifying the inclusion of biopolitics as a response to the questions raised by the worldmaking tenet, this article aims to set the concept of biopolitics as the articulation between dominant structures and agency. As contemporary social life and the reproduction of society are integrated into the scope of market capitalism, and the state exerts its role as protector of the "free" market, biopolitics functions through the internalization of the rules of conduct by individuals, as well as through the economic integration of previously noneconomic spheres. Conducting a systematic literature review to expose the presence of the biopolitical lens in tourism research reveals the relevance of pursuing critical and unconventional research strategies. A diverse yet limited corpus of texts has developed in the context of the persistence and pervasiveness of both biopolitics and tourism in complex and uneven global social, political, and spatiotemporal systems and networks, highlighting new theoretical constellations rooted primarily in Foucauldian biopolitics. This essay uncovers a powerful entanglement of nonlinear and multiscalar tourism elements, and calls for ambitiously undertaking tourism research to address tourism discourses, structures, and practices in place and society.
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